Abstract: Slippings and strippings of a person, under rhythm of contractions and expansions of time: process analysis of self-representational artworks entitles this research in Visual Poetics. Through this research I intend to understand personal process of creation, concerned with selfrepresentation. Working with this theme, I also intend to think of manners with which contemporary life provokes changes in conventional concept of selfportrait: a reasonable formal fidelity that exists between the model and the author of a portrait; so, model and author are the same person. Through personal artistic production and artworks from other artists, this research aims to verify the effects that transformations in concepts of memory, identity and authorship have caused in this concept of self-portrait. I work with "otherness" concept as a major element in the artistic purposes, weaving them in a kind of a process that relates contractions and expansions of time, closing art and life. I establish connections with my procedures and Sophie Calle, On Kawara, Roman Opalka, Arthur Bispo do Rosario and Kurt Schwitters' purposes, among others, as well as other concepts of Contemporary Philosophy,Literary Theory and some themes in Sociology and Anthropology, mainly represented by Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Fausto Colombo and Philippe Lejeune